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VP2*** Set 11
Question | Answer |
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Vernal | Related to spring; fresh |
Vim | Vitality and energy |
Vituperate | To abuse verbally, berate |
Voluble | Talkative, speaking easily, glib |
Zenith | The point of culmination; peak |
Zephyr | A gentle breeze; something airy or unsubstantial |
Equivocate | To avoid committing oneself in what one says, to be deliberately unclear |
Ersatz | Being an artificial and inferior substitute or imitation |
Excoriated | To censure scathingly; to express strong disapproval of |
Extirpate | To root out, eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly |
Extrinsic | External, unessential; originating from the outside |
Effluvia | Waste; odorous fumes given off by waste |
Epochal | Momentous, highly significant |
Eponymous | Giving one's name to a place, book, restaurant Synonym: named after |
Doctrinaire | Rigidly devoted to theories without regard for practicality; dogmatic |
Discomfit | To disconcert, to make on lose one's composure |
Diluvial | Pertaining to a flood |
Demagogue | Leader, rabble-rouser, usually using appeals to emotion or prejudice |
Declaim | To speak loudly and vehemently |
Countervail | To act or react with equal force |